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South park makers fluent in Japanese. Or not?


Well, we can't see the original japanese so we can't actually see where the hiragana and katakana are mixed up. However katakana can by used to write words normally written in hiragana for emphasis etc. it can also be used to replace all the hiragana in a sentence to imitate certain speaking styles, often robots etc, (that's probably the only time you'll see ヲ by the way.). I have a hunch that the original Japanese was fine and the translator just didn't understand this, my evidence that they needed dictionaries and lots of help to translate the song. Well, we'll never know if we can't see the Japanese where he mixed it up though.
 

I recall kenka being written in katakana, and they used a fair amount of kanji in appropriate places. It actually wasn't a bad effort, considering 95% of the audience would never know if it was correct or not...which it was.
 
That South Park ninja song is written in both bad English and weird Japanese. They deliberately made it that way to make fun of all the strange English found around Japan.
 
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